You are suggesting an interesting concept Bob. Do you suppose that there is phononic coupling between the individual reacting sites resulting in some form of chain reaction? If that is true then a threshold density of deuterium would be required in order to spread a local burn. Otherwise you might expect a somewhat linear reaction rate with deuterium density.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Bob Cook <frobertc...@hotmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Tue, Oct 6, 2015 7:58 pm Subject: [Vo]:Re: LENR theory The laser is made up of a specific frequency of oscillating electric and magnetic fields of considerable intensity (oscillating amplitudes). It is either the electric field or magnetic field of the laser at an appropriate frequency in resonance with the resonance frequency of the electronic bonds of the FCC crystal lattice or the orbital magnetic moments of the electrons bonding the lattice that are excited to energies above their ground state that cause deflection of the lattice. These resonant electric and magnetic fields cause the lattice to vibrate in resonant phonic energy states and not random vibrations associated with a temperature and its spectrum of different lattice frequencies. The deflections of the lattice parameters can be substantially greater than would occur at any given temperature. These greater vibrations provide for more motion of the lattice nuclei and potential for close approach and a LENR reaction. When H or D are found inside a FCC crystal lattice position, the localized energy of the vibrating lattice can be enough to force the H or D together and or to force them close to a lattice nucleus. The same effects may occur in a tight defect in the lattice or a vacancy in the normal lattice structure. Alloying elements in a lattice may also change the modes of vibration and cause D and or H to be forced together more than in a normal lattice vacancy or inside a normal FCC lattice cube. As suggested above the addition of energy to the lattice is much different than occurs during resistance heating where electrons are drawn down a voltage gradient and collide at random with nuclei of the lattice and/or non-conducting electrons of the lattice. This random collision is what causes the lattice to vibrate at various frequencies and results in some temperature resulting from the electrical resistance of the lattice and its relative random response to the electrons’ kinetic energies. Adding energy by resistance heating causes only a relatively few lattice bonds to vibrate at any given frequency, whereas a laser beam would cause many more lattice bonds to vibrate at the desired frequency. The desired frequency is of course the natural resonant frequency of the lattice—much like a spring has a resonant frequency. The motion of the lattice particles is the greatest at the resonant frequency and can increase substantially with substantial resonant energy input that may be provided by an intense laser beam, even during a very short duration in time. Hence large lattice displacements and LENR may occur with very little total energy input. If LENR does occur in a lattice, it will heat the lattice and produce random vibrations in the normal spectrum of vibrations. The laser can stimulate the lattice positions that happen to be vibrating at the laser frequency to gain in their amplitudes and hence influence local H or D molecules or Cooper pairs or whatever is in the FCC lattice position of defect or void to react. Such laser increases the population of lattice vibrations at the right frequency and amplitude necessary for LENR compared to such vibrations induced by temperature alone. These are only rough classical ideas of what may occur. Bob Cook From: Axil Axil Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 12:31 PM To: vortex-l Subject: Re: [Vo]:LENR theory Regarding: "A departure from equilibrium must be established that will permit an external energy source (eg. the DC power supply in an electrolysis experiment and/or a pair of low power lasers as in the Letts/Hagelstein two laser experiment) to feed energy into the H-H or D-D stretching mode vibrations. The difference in chemical potential that is established in gas loading experiments can also serve very nicely; in this case the flux feeds energy into the stretching mode vibrations." Light is usually reflected from the surface of a metal. In order for there to be energy transferred from light to the lattice, an energy conversion process must apply. What exactly gets the lattice to vibrate? When electrons are applied to the lattice surface in the case of DC current, how do the electrons produce lattice vibrations? If the stimulus is heat caused by electrical resistance, what localizes the heat? How did they determine that localized vibrations were occurring? Did they just assume that superoscillations were happening? In the case of laser light stimulation, why is a very specific frequency of light required? Any type of light will produce heat. On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:04 PM, a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote: I think this paper may well be the most important one since Pons and Fleischmann's original announcement. Pity that Vortex didn't want to display it as it sent it here before sending it to ECatWorld. It would be much easier to discuss with the full paper visible.
